The Woman Warrior is a story about Maxine Hong Kingston's memoir, who is trying to blend and develop two different cultures into one. The story explains how immigrants have hard times and difficulties when they move to a new country. The setting of Women Warrior tells a life of Maxine Hong Kingston as a second-generation Chinese- American girl. She realizes that she must combine Chinese langue, culture, and family tradition with American standards. Kingston has many problems struggling with her life to balance Chinese life at home while going to American school. She must deal with being a quiet woman trying to fight racism and oppression. She is striving to blend the two cultures without abandoning the traditions. Kingston goes back and forth from the past to the present to show the importance of her past heritage being combine with her present life.

In Chinese culture, women are viewed as inferior.

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Maxine Hong Kingston in New York City

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Kinston is repeatedly reminded that, as a girl, she will "grow up to be a wife and a slave."(47) She often tries to prove her worth by doing something great, like getting straight A's in school. Kingston learns most of her Chinese lessons through talk-stories told by her mother and others members of the family. She can identify with most of the talk-stories that she hears. She is warned in the beginning of the stories to keep quiet about the no mane woman. The stories are told in a fashion that once it is finished, there are no questions asking for more information. This is important, because as she is trying to establish some ties between the two cultures, she must truly understand the reason for the story. Most of the stories tell of one lesson and give no reason for most of the actions talking place. One...

... Woman Warrior is a story about the life of Maxine Hong Kingston. It is easy to see her identity from those memorable occurrences that she mentions throughout her book, especially the stories her mother told her. The story of 'Fa Mu Lan', for example, teaches women ...

... Maxine Hong Kingston, the author and narrator of The Woman Warrior ... Chinese culture is not wanted, it is simply not talked about. Kingston often jumped between fact and fiction. Frequently it became difficult to discern the false from the true. Kingston ...

... woman warrior, standing up to the constraints that society inflicts upon her and overcoming them. Ironically, however, Brave Orchid buys a slave, which completely contradicts every value she tries to uphold earlier in the chapter. Why would Maxine Kingston ...

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